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...past two years of intensified movement to freedom, and the failure of the white rulers to institute real change, has so polarized South Africa that today there is no middle ground. The slow step-by-step reforms which some had hoped for never came, and the credibility of those who called for "constructive engagement" is now gone...
...cautious, step-by-step approach does not make for inspiring oratory. But it has helped earn him the trust of his President. And maybe, just maybe, it really is the only way to make diplomatic progress...
...didn't realize I did all that stuff." The speaker is Fred Astaire, and the stuff is five decades of dazzling solos and duets. Astaire Dancing by John Mueller (Knopf; 440 pages; $45) gives those performances a step-by-step analysis tinctured with autobiography: "What's all this talk about me being teamed with Ginger Rogers?" the star asks his agent in 1934. "I will not have it." There is no substitute for seeing the fabulous originals, but this fond retrospective is an invaluable guidebook to the heights of Hollywood musicals. "I always need a lot of convincing...
Self-promotion is what it's all about--that and developing one's own style, says Crisps during the witty monologue. A step-by-step guide to cultivating a style must first begin with purging life of its unnecessary baggage. You know, things like jobs, culture, evening classes, superfluous people and boring domestic rituals...
ROYAL SECRETS TAKES US step-by-step through the "downstairs" of Buckingham Palace, Sandringham, and the other Royal residences, dropping harmless chit-chat at every turn. Prince Philip, we harm, visits the kitchen regularly to berate the cooks. Prince Charles hung out there as a child, but by the time he reached 30 he had forgotten the way. Lady Diana, captive in the palace before her wedding, spent so much time in the pantry that The Yeoman of the Glass and China finally threw her out. "Through there is your side of the house. Your Royal Highness...